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The    Hawaiian    Legend   of   Creation 


BY 


JULIEN  DARWIN  HAYNE 


PAGES   ILLUMINATED    BY  VIGGO    JACOBSEN 


"  How  fleet  is  a  glance  of  the  mind  ! 

Compared  with  the  speed  of  its  flight, 
The  tempest  itself  lags  behind, 
And  the  swift-winged  arrows  of  light." 


SAN    FRANCISCO: 

WILLIAA\    DOXEY 

j.%6 


PRESS  OF  THE  HICKS- JUI»D  Co., 
23  First  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 


tf.fr/3 

COPYRIGHT    1896 

BY 

JULIEN  DARWIN  HAYNE 


PREFACE. 


Is  my  language  original  matter  ? 

Is  the  plan  of  this  story  my  own  ?  — 

I  answer,  my  claim  's  for  the  latter; 

The  words  used  in  telling  unknown. 

If  the  reader  finds  any  he's  met  with  before, 

Familiar  and  loved — used  by  writers  of  yore — 

Please  credit  them  all,  in  such  manner  and  measure, 

As,  reading  my  story,  will  give  you  most  pleasure. 


DEDICATORY. 

Aloha!    fair    Hawaii, 
A   song  to  thee   I   sing— 
Thou   land   of   endless   summer 
And   ceaseless,  blooming   spring. 
Aloha  !    land   of   sunshine, 
Of   beauty,  warmth    and  .rest- 
Some   day   may   thy    people 
By    God    be   saved    and    bless'd. 


OFCRETmON 


I L.LUST  RATIONS  -ARRANQED-SV- VIG5OJACOBS EN. 


Legend  commences  in  long  ago  time, 
Nigh  over  the  Tast  agile  Thought,  cannot  climb; 
For  even  swift  Though!,  after  millions  of  ages, 
Becomes  travcl-lilindfd  anil  i/i  chaos  raqex, 
jind  thus  never  rcni'hc*  Time's  youth  or  those  years 
When  force  had  /////  faxliiorifri  tin'  hat  glowing  xphc 
Which  only  stood  .<////  in  n  rluud  of  blue  apace 
To  cool,  before  storting  in  Time's  whirling  race. 
Close  your  eyes,  then,  and  endeavor  to  Ihink 
Of  a  fal /torn lex*,  /y/;//WMv,v,  precipitous  brink, 
On  which  a  mind.  *ian<iittfi,  bul  nothingness  feels f 
&n  absence  of  'Being,  before  which  it  reels 


[9] 


n*  f? 


V»^EX& 


^'FORN^ 


And  falls  back;  and,  by  grim  blackness  caught, 

carried  beyond  to  the  regions  of  naught. 
My  part  but  the  space,  o  'er  I  he  far-away  past, 
Of  a  heart's  throb,  when  the-  blood  pulses  fast; 
'Tis  but  a  fragment,  for  man  is  too  weak 
To  write  of  those  things  of  which  gads  alone  speak. 
Mine  not  a  history  of  gods,  but  of  men; 
Of  Change  and  of  Death  to  Vie  world  ushered  in.. 


WHEftE  the  bright  god  of  day  from  his  high  architrave 
Looks  down  on  fire  mountains,  on 

valleys  and  wave, 
Which  shimmer,  green,  redden,  in 

tropical  glow, 
rind  the  yam  and  the  mango  with 

sweet  guavas  arow; 
Where  the  cocoanut  palm  and 
the  rose-apple  bloom, 


MI] 


£nd  life  is  one  long,  sunny,  still  afternoon,' 

In  I  he  land  of  Wakea,  of  flowers  and  song, 
Lies  Mauf.  p  from  Wailuhi  along, 

?lre  bounded  by  >  rose, 

Like  lite  peu]  it  goes 

The  smile  of  the  murmn:i  the  night 

$Lnd  floods  va  //  rivers  of  Haiti, 


HE^E  dwelt  the  gods  when  the  stars  first  shorn  through 
The  dim  mists  of  distance  with  canopy  blue, 
£nd  all  Ihi*  fair  farlh  lay  hidden  beneath 
The  bcnl-grecn  water*  of  Creation's  Leth'; 
When,  never  n  as  pain,  woe,  weakness  or  age, 


1 13] 


Nor  Death,  with  his  greedy,  insatiable  ray?, 
But  lift  was  unpanged;  there  was  quid  and 
rest 


On  Haleakala,  the  mount  of  the  bless'd. 

No  darkness  //Y/.V  then,  for  I  he  mountain 's  high  brou 

U'*as  crowned  by  the  lowers  of 

a  ffalemaumau; 
dnd  when  the  day-god  sank  to 

sleep  in  the  west, 
The  light  fronrHs 
fountains  in 
new 
dress' d 


The  koa  and  palm; 
new  shades  of 
delight 

Came  into  the 
1)ay;  no  phantoms  had 

Wight. 

Mere  a  rre  silver-bright  streams, 
vluch  ran  with  a  song 


To  gladden  the  sta.  TJierc  was  no  sin  or  wrong 
For  monarch  and  slare  in  fhix  />/<?  irere  unknown, 
&tt  men  mre  gods,  all  gods  men  alone. 


MO.  a  valley  of  beauty  supreme, 
0  'erlooked,  walled  by  mount  aim,  fern-plumed  and  sertti 
Wfiere  thousands  of  waterfalls  cool  the  warm  air, 
And  a  bow  multi-colored,  with  promises  rare, 
Is  shadowed  forever  from  mountain  to  sea 
And  back,  in  a  vision  of  joys  yet  to 
Where  Vie  sty  floats  on  /iff//',  </  rcil  of  blue  haze., 
While  below  through  lh*  ><  loom-bordered  wn, 

Glints,  now  in  t/ie  sunshine  and  now  disappears, 


[17] 


IVBRSITY 


31  bright  stream  which  warbles  through  long  summer  yean, 

lo,  high  goddess  of  reason  and  light, 
Fair  as  the  morning,  when  hope  /.v  all  'bright, 
And  the  soul  through  the  n  w  looks  abroad  o  'er  the  world 
To  catch  the  faint  gleam  of  the  splendor  thai  ^  hurled 
From,  the  car  of  the  sun,  and  radiates  then 
To  sweeten  and  hallo*  the  lires  of  all  men. 


[19] 


Every  high  god  gave,  his  mind  and  his  heart 

To  fashion  her  pa  I  are  beyond  earthly  art 

Of  description.      Here  one  saw  the  work  of  the  hand 

Which  'Purih  <]ui<1e+;  'franquiliiy  there  it  'avert  her  wand; 

While    Wisdom,  and    'truth    their  combined  strength 

displayed 

In  building  tKe  walls  which  to  Love  fondly  raised; 
?lnd  the  great  Sovereign  God,  who  guards  great  and 

small, 
Adorned,  beautified  and  embellished  it  all. 

e.  goddess  of  y»rfure,  tt$  gardener,  laid 
Out  den'  hi  it  a, 
HI  I  It  fairest  of  roses  each  pathway  //VA  //?/////- 


[21] 


[23] 


///  n  murmur  of  bliss.  In  return  nevermore; 

Jl<  if  the  *<> ft  it  liters  teemed  nil  It  ocean  life  I  ken, 

'/'Iti-  sht/rk  ninl  Hie  pulii.  the  dolphin,  mermen; 

sitid  none  it  ere  I  he  prey  of  the  oilier  A  nho  tile. 

I'ji'en  it  l>  rut  her  their  hunger  to  ante; 

Ihil  Ilicy  fashed  <ind  they  >•//>////.  a*  tn  lo  th.ev  crime. 

Joyous  '/x  Freedom  before  she'd  n  name; 

?lntl  llii'Y  sported  and  spun  through  I/if  xt/wry  spray, 

(J hid  tome  a  it  It  life  in  life 's  longest  day. 


OF  ti  'DAY,  as  the  goddess  rode  shoreward,  a  well 
From  the  cares  where  the  mcrmaidcns  duel/. 
Swept  over  Ihe  ocean  in  grent  walls  of  foam, 
Which  broke  in  the  garden  of  her  palace  home; 


[25] 


[Ug^r? 

•>S  -,--,:•-,-        •_-,,•.,,  ,,_- 

~t 

•.,"-t-H 

And  a  dolphin  rode  ever  by  ////, 

1 

grcSfi| 

Which,  carried  so  far  l>v  the  .«•>/// 

Ri 

From  its  home,  lay  gasping  and  warm 

rA 

[•Ki^Bl 

On  the  sand,  pillowed  and  held  by  the  arm 

|    4s&^l    : 

Of  the  goddess.      'Then  crimson  it  grew  as  lh<-  i, 

Of  the  sun  in  the  west  when  his  f.rc.xt.  sinks  below 

!  ^f 

The  honzoned  circle  of  Time's  rounded  globe  ; 

Then  golden  and  bright  as  the  glittering  rohr. 

- 

Of  the  morning;  'blue  as  the  sk\  a  hen  the  sentinel  star* 

Are  watching  the  transit  of  red  burning  .)////*.- 

iff 

:  V^;;?-—'  \ 

And  yellow,  maroon,  green,  olive  and  while; 

1   / 

And  last  in  its  colors,  incandescent  bright, 

I; 

'Twas  like  a  great  opal  in  flame  spots  of  red. 

1  t 

Transparent  and  glowing;  and  the  fish  god  it  //.-•  dead. 

; 

And  the  goddess  of  Reason  saw,  it  here  m/x  //  //>></. 

MpsP'l 

A  man,  who  arose  and  stood  firm  on  the  sod 

I  NM«>V!  i 

Of  the  lawn.     Darkness  came  ttien  o  'er  the  mountain 

Iffjjjjfj^'' 

and  sea, 

[27] 


."/  wind  cold  as  death  sighed  through  blossoms  and  tree 
jlnd  the  gods  of  the  earth  fo  the  fair  valley  came 
Hastening  and  fearful.      .*///  rust  the  sad  blame 
Upon  Jo,  wlio  found  Ihi*  new  being  with  aspect  * 
strange, 
they  knew  as  Wakea,  Ihe  man  god  of  Change, 


THUS  came  into  being  Wakea  and  'Death; 
dnd  so  came  the  'Darkness,  with  this  god's  fast  breath; 
fBut  a  mother's  heart  loved  him,  and,  as  the  years  ran, 
She  polished  and  cultured  the  father  of  man; 
Taught  him  all  Wisdom,  and  Knowledge,  and  Art; 
All  skill  in  all  things  in  which  gods  have  a  part; 
The  law  of  'Dynamics,  of  Fluids  and  Light, 
Of  Sound  and  of  Distance;  how  Mind  made  its  flight 
To  travel  the  universe;  nor  was  there  left  aught 
Within  the  unlimited  regions  of  Thought, 
Unknown  to  Wakea.      The  drts  lost  to-day 
for  him  were  amusements,  were  but  childish  play. 
And  he  wander* d  a  mldering  labyrinth  maze 
Of  intricate  fancy,  where,  clear  as  the  rays 
Of  the.  mm  when  'tis  noontide,  pure  Wisdom  sees 
Each  sculptured  figure  on  cornice  and  frieze t 
Which  armment  passages  in  the  great  whole 


[29] 


The  gods  designate  as  the  home  of  the  soul, 
dnd  he  came  to  maturity,  modest,  but  strong, 
Careful  of  'Sight,  and  blowing  no  wrong; 
The  mother  was  first  of  all  things  in  his  love, 
On  land  or  in  air,  in  the  sea  or  above; 
Sis  haven  of  joy  and  Wisdom 's  retreat 
He  found  as  he  sat  at  a  fond  mother's 


2?Z/T  Change  came  to  alter  the  whole,  universe, 
To  color,  to  substitute,  shift  and  make  worse; 
It  came  to  diversify,  vex,  agitate, 
To  lot  and  determine  man 's  ultimate  / 
And  doom  to  extinction;  to  limit  the  span 
Which  measures  the  life  of  each  mortal  man. 
And  its  struggles,  contentions,  unrest; 
Its  strivings  to  better  what  gods  deem  'd  the  best,A 
Made  Wakea  a  wanderer  soon  as  In's  range 
Knew  all  wisdom,     dnd  he  sought  something  strange 
3ts  he  strayed  through  the  worlds  and  each  star 
WMch  kung  o  Vr  ttie  island  of  Maui  and  far 
To  the  east,  where  t/ie  sun  from  his  home 
Smiks  first  on  this  earth.     Then  south  where  Ihc-  foam 
Of  the  placid  Pacific  breaks  over  the  sand 
Of  hot  Micronesia,  and  wed  to  the  land 
Whose  shores  Polynesia  '$  link  under  the  deep; 
north  where  the  earth  is  fast  frozen;  asleep 


SITY 


fn  Vic  rlasp  of  cold  winter.    $nd  he  found  but  a  grarf. 


THVS  he  came  to  Hawaii 
I V  and  ba$k' 


[33] 


Of  a  palm  in  a  wide  flowery  glade, 
Which  enters  the  mountains  near 

JKona.     dud?  sleep 
Like  an  odor  came,  when  zephyrs 

creep 
•Soft  over  plains  where  the  poppy 


wooed  him  to  rest,  but  he 
slept  all  alone. 


[35] 


10,  the  mother,  who  had  watched  her  child's  flight. 
Came  with  low  winds  to  fan  and  nith  shadows  the  lujhl 

Of  the  sun 's  rays  lo  slake. 
And  her  heart  sighed  lo  sec 
\The  workings  of  Change;  and 
she  sat  'neath  the  tree 


While  the  ,sv/.v  ran  his  course-  and  the  stars  one  hy  one 

Smiled  down  from  the  pathway  o'er  tifrich  he.  hud  run: 

^ind  dill  slept  the  boy.     Then  came  the  morning  again, 

T/A  silent  the  sun  god  arose  from  the  main 

?lnd  opened  the  gales  for  the  morn  to  pass  through. 

find  the  mother  in  troubled,  compassionate  me 

Sat,  with  no  thought  which  could  comfort,  console, 

The  child  which  she  loved  with  the.  whole 

Of  her  being.     Thus,  while  lie  slumbered  find  lo  waiti-d, 

O'er  the  sea  came  a  turtle-dove,  lone  and  an  in  a  ted, 

With  sweet,  plaintive  cry,  and  it  flew  to  I  he  pa /in 

Where  Wakea  slumbered;  its  note*  seemed  a  halm 

To  his  spirit,  for,  smilint/,  lie  rose  and  called  to  the  bird, 

Which  came  at  his  call,  and  when  Jo  heard 

The  tones  of  his  voice,  their  Ion;/ ing  request 

For  companionship,  till  now  all  unblessed 

By  responses,  her  soul  moved  with  pily,  her  hand 

Stretched  to  fondle  the  bird,  and  she  clasped  the  deep 

band 

Of  color  which  bound  the  smooth  throat;  and  there  came 
Such  a  change  as  astonished  the  <)<>d*  when  they  saw, 
And  fitted  mother  and  son  with  Lne's  new-found  awe. 
For  the  dove  was  no  more,  but  a  uo/nan  was  there, 


[37] 


Fond  as  the  dove,  but  more  bfauliful,  star-eyed  and  fair 
Than  all  the  bright  risions  which  CJiiinye  or  its  dreams 
Had  pictured  or  mirrored  in  Fancy's  wide  streams. 


[39] 


SO  cam  Kakahiaka,  the  mom, 

?lnd  tte  mother  of  men;  from  her  and  Wakea  were  torn 


3LU  the  peoples  which  spread  o'er  the  earth  from  each 

pole, 

fill  they  met y ft  again  where  Hit:  mi</hly  sea's  roll 
Sounds  deep  on  the  shorn  of  Hawaii,    dwl  )t  'akea  all 
"Men  knew  as   Father,   and  'Peace  o'er  I  h 

rounded  batt, 

Like  Hie  smile  of  a  montiiu]  in  May, 
Threw  her  mantle.     .Vc/>  /im/  a/xl  Im  rr/  on  till  the  t 


[41] 


Wh&fi  their  soul  to  Waked  returned;  and  they,  thought 
Their  future  prm'isions  for  lime  or  the  world  but  as 

naught 
In  the  hands  of  Wakea.     There  iras  no  hoard  and  no 

dearth; 

3fo  grandeur  of  nwn  who  plundered  the  earth 
jLnd  made  slaves  of  ten  thousands,  so  the  one 
Might  shine  for  an  hour,  in  an  hour  to  be  gone. 
Only  to  leave,  like  the  track  of  a  famine,  the  blight 
Of  his  course,  and  hatred  as  black  as  woe's  night. 
To  curse  his  career.     In  those  olden  days 
Mankind  was  not  robbed  by  his  brother;  his  ways 
Not  surrounded  by  pitfalls,  around  which,  when  lie  fell, 
brother's  rejoicings  arose  as  Ms  knell. 


find  lo,  in  sorrow,  returned  to  the  yam  fields 

Of  Maui.     (But  once  more  they  met  till  those  years 

When  the  god$  left  the  earth  and  wandered  in  spheres 

Where  man  was  unable  lo  follow;  then  Wakea  came 

To  mourn  the  sad  fate  of  man  and  to  blame 

The  high  uods  who  created  this  being,  and  gave 

Him  his  great  capabilities,  then  left  him  a  slave 


I  V    _1^it  v.u..J   J 


[45] 


e 


To  the  f awnings  of  Hope,     tt'/,<  sent  •,:>;>  at  a  jester 

?ll  his  ef/'ui'l:-;  iind  MY////  itith  his  phantoms  of  friir 
'la  poison  Ins  happiness.      Left  him  blind  to  I  he  future 

and  /our, 

In  <t  dt'st-r!  of  wonderment,  'fore  fhe  unknown. 
/),  •!>!  :ii''h  >••>,',/  /iii./erx  /w/v/W  out  fur  his  hest. 

its  acme  <>f  zest. 

•N"    lt'ii/.'<  u  i': I nif  In  ins  /nut he i'  for  succor  and  did, 
?ll  the  firi r  isle  «f  Maui,  and,  mourning,  he  said: 


"THIS  have  I  found,  and  my  soul  if  ///.•?  with  dread. 
'fftttt  nil  must,  sontf  dtiy,  pmtfsoe'er  flic  /ifc  they've  it/f 
Gran  old,  unlovely,  neat;,  bowed  duini  niffi  weight  of 

years; 

And  though  mm  lark  up  Lave  and  ////>  as  fluse  as  fears 
Can  conjure,  so  thai  Nig  hi  and  Duy  I  heir  breaths  arc 

one, 

Yd  'J  imc  can  atnie  and  filch,  for  Time  moves  on, 
And  thus  steals  passions,  tjraee  and  youth  away, 
,i.?  'black  M<//t/  sledls  the  rose-gleam  from  the  hills  of 

fjray. 
Which  fade  to  darkness.     And  I've  wondered  how  deaf 

Ijove 

7  sore  her  sued  ness,  spite  of  Time;  below,  above, 
ffr  somewhere  'mid  the,  whirling  spheres,  in  lhal  pint 

or  this, 
Hold  f<is{  Ihe  lift',  which  here  men,  living,  miss. 


OF   THK 

TJNIVERSi 


cBul  no,  there  is  no  fortune  by  the  gods  e'er  told 
To  slay  Vie  spirit  which  forever  makes  men  old; 
There  is  no  power  on  earth,  in  sty,  in  any  clime, 
To  stay  the  unrelenlless  Jiaiid  of  time. " 


then  his  head,  Wafaa  slowly  paced  the  vak 
II  'here  lo  dwell  in  'Main:  whil>-  his  mother  told  the  tale 
Of  ages.  How  Matter,  Xoul,  //,/  Mnd 

But  served  a  purpose  fi.icd,  each  in  class  and  kind 
determined  by  the  Sovereign  God,  whose  lavs, 
Inscrutable  to  gods,  were  never  questioned  nor  their 

cause 
Or  effect  e  'er  impugned.     How  every  god  who  rules  the 

wave, 

Sighs  in  the  breeze,  or  with  his  hand  of  bounty  gave 
Its  perfume  to  the  rose,  or  guides  the  chariot  of  the  sun, 
Or  lights  the  star*  a  hen  'Darkness  says  the  day  is  done, 
'But  does  his  part  in  one  grand  universal  Iffiole, 
Of  which  the  Sovereign  God  is  essence  and  the  Soul. 

•'maltest  atom  floating  in  the  hazy  realms  of  space, 
.•V<?/  tiny  />,  'might  can  even  trace, 

Can  in  Hie  fimm*i-i(nr*  all-pervading  plan 

'  indispensable  as  man. 

ft  Why  does  man  murmur?    See  the  stems  of  grain 
Which  ram  the  wheat  hud*  lo  the  sun  and  fruitful  rain; 
$0  they  question  a/n  the  providence  of  God 
Has  wilted  that  each  return  unto  the  clod 
from  which  it  sprunt;.  «  han'est  time  is  o'a'.' 

What  claim  has  man  u/j'.»i  th>:  //••;//.<  for  any  more 


[49] 


When  compared  with  the  unbounded,  infinite  Ml, 
That  other  worlds  know  not  of  his  existence;  shall  not 

know 
He  lived.      Tel  each  one  of  alt  these  myriad  worlds, 

which  go 


[51] 


H'ith  constellated  splendors  through  Ihe  ™1<ir  year, 
filled  nilh  /iff.     Man  htt$  no  need  to  stand  in  an? 

f>f  'JJeath.  or  fear 
The  wit  fieri u  tj  breath  of  age.      'The  <jod*  will  keep  I  heir 

own; 

Tis  only  mortal  /nan  it  ho,  dying,  shall  I  It  us  quit*'  atone 
For  man '$  wrong-doing;  Ihf  Spirit  free,  heroine*  again 
'I he  god  and,  resuming  rule  //.<  in  ///'.?  former  reign, 
Furgds  Ihe  squalid  mciinncss,  bounded  by  the  narrow 
view 

Of  mortal  apprehension.     Men 

at'//  .steadily  pursue 
'The  circle,  of  their  own  conceit; 

in  dreary  dullness  plod 
XI riling  for  Ihe  earth  and  tarn- 
int]  but  a  mouldy  clod. 


>.   n  akea,  go  bid  your  weep- 
ing mortals  dry  their  tears 

taught  by  I  heir  sen'ants, 
the  Hide-eyed,  patient  steers, 
U'hitli  hear  th?  yoke  of  man's 
contriving,  endure  their  load, 


wgnalton 

^id  them  dream  no  more 
d$  his  course 


[S3] 


/y  THE  first  days  of  man's  creation,  before  his 

children  spread 
Throughout  the  world,  pastoral  were  the  ways  his 

fancy  ted. 

To  tend  his  flocks  and  watch  the  growing  herd 
Browse  on  the  juicy  herbage,  while  the  bright-winged 

bird 

Sang  ever  near  the  pasture;  to  live  long  years  of  peace, 
find  see  his  children  and  his  /oys  increase, 
Filled  up  the  measure  of  his  cares.     No  war  was  made 

on  life 
To  feed  man's  hunger;  Lore  and  Mercy,  prevalent  and 

rife. 

Stretched  forth  the  kindly  hand  of  strength  to  shield 
The  smallest  living  creature,  in  Ike  wood  or  field. 
Man  claimed  no  right  to  plunder,  hunt  or  kill 
cBy  reason  of  superior  wisdom  or  his  greater  skill; 
In  each  breathing  thing  a  brother's  form  he  saw, 
Which  lived  and  died  by  the  same  perfect  law 
That  gave  him  being.    Then  was  Nature's  brotherhood; 
Happiness  for  self,  for  all  God's  creatures  good. 


[55] 


HJ'T  Change  and  3)cath  wrought  ever  side  by  fide 
Men  talked  of  a  future,  while  some  there  were 

who  cried 
against  the  gods'  decrees  and  questioned, 

"when  and  why?" 
Wondered,  speculated;  smiled  when  men  were 

born,  and  wept  to  see,  them  die: 
Said,   "For  posterity  men  should  have  a 

care;" 
And   argued   ton/,    with    most    important, 

solemn  air. 


That  the  gods  gave  man  reason,  clearly  thus  to  mark 

$  rank  above  the  brute; 

thai   this   divine   and 

godly  spark 
Inspired  men  with  a  zeal  lo 

build,  on  earth,  a  name 
To   be.    remembered;  and 
then  men  worshipped 

Fame; 
And  strove  nilh  'Death  lo 

hold  their  crumbling 


\KememorattVi 

time,  f  raised. 


[57] 


JZlfT  some  great  hearts  who  s<nr  beyond  the  vail 

Which  hides  Ihc  future;  some  spirils  saddened 

by  the  wail 
That  rose  in  clamor  from  I  he  low,  the  base 

and  mean, 

Those  mortals  who  are  ever  heard  and  ever  seen 
When  betterment  of  self  or  betterment  of  theirs 
Or  some  enlargement  of  estate  or  heirs 
Is  but  considered,  to  Waken  catm  and  prayed 
That  he  would  give  some  sign  to  guide  the  feet 

which  strayed 


From  path*  of  nisdom;   some  token  by  which  men 

should  know 
The  road  to  happiness,  the 

thorny  ways  of  woe. 
Thut  Wakea  taught,  and 

they  who  listened  grew 
In   knowledge;   but  they 

numbered  only  few: 


be  miserable  needs' only  to  be  weak, 
Yet  man's  most  capital  fault  and  weakness 

seek, 

And  you  mil  find,  whatsoe'er  his  station  be, 
beggar  or  prince,  in  slavish  bonds  or  free, 
He  struggles  most  and  most  he  treasures 

power, 

To  guard  his  tenure  even  for  one  single  hour, 
Of  those  frail  flowers  of  Fame  which  crou/i 

his  brow, 

Tfor  recks  where  he  obtain*  them,  when  or  how. 
There  is  no  end,  no  ebbing  turn  of  tide 


To  human  greed.  M  vanity  or  human  pride. 
'•  wiginy  farm  of  all  the  joy  he  grasps; 
'.is    better  spirit 
clasps; 

The  hotlomess  of  all  those  ravished  raptures 
sweet, 
///  the  gaudy  draperies  complete 

It  'hick  hide  Life  *s  tinseled  pomp  and  plea- 
sures vain, 

With  all  its  shabbiness,  its  falseness  and  Us 
pain, 

Should  teach  men  virtue  and  life's  lesson  trite, 

That  Happiness  is  doing,  always,  right. 


\ 


".-1X7)  vhat  is  life?  ://  and  silcn 

-,  Mocking,  vacant  and  accufi 
Then  ne.it  but  lotus  thoughts,  unformed  and 

dim, 

liliich  on  Hack,  shoreless  waters  swim; 
Then  smiles  tun!  joj  s.  //  ilh  griff  and  many 

tears. 

Infinite  strife  and  ghastly,  spectre  fears; 
Then  once  again  the  circling  wheel  of  Change 

cafiies  round, 
dnd  J)tirb/f^.  Death  and  fishes  in  the  grave 

found; 
An  itie  fantaa-lic,  crumped,   chimerical  and 

small 
Is  human  Life,  and  that,  for  man,  is  all. 


[61] 


"AND  man  who  slruts  this  island  vain  and  mean; 
And  laughs  Us  shifting  shores  between; 
And  runs  that  way  and  hurries  after  this, 
Fearful  that  some  paltry  Change  he '//  miss, 
But  chases  shadows,  evanescent  and  unreal; 
And  shall,  whatever  he  may  think  or  feel, 
However  much  he  make,  how  love,  or  burn 

with  hate; 
How  cringe  'fore  Fear  or,  lured  by  Hope, 

anticipate, 
%tut  return   to   dust,    like   alt  his   teeming 

fancies,  when 
He's  launched  upon  the,  waves  of  Time's  dark  pathless 

Then. 

This  is  man 's  end,  so  has 

been;  and  ever  so  shall  be 

Throughout  the  span  men 

name  Eternity. 


f(Bl'T  Virtu?,  Truth  and  Justice,  each  shall  live  when 


Time, 

With  all  his  show  of  marvels,  all  his  farce 
and  mime, 

Shall  be  no  more.     For  these  three  answer 
at  the  call 

Of  Makuakane,  He,  the  Sovereign  God  of  all. 

And,  after  man  with  all  his  petty  strife  and 
senseless  fears, 

With  all  his  Falsehood,  Baseness  and  Injus- 
tice, disappears, 
This  trinity  shall  lead  man 's  Spirit,  by  the  pathway  trod 


[63] 


UNIVERSITY 


Of  all  reluming  Souls,  back  to  its  giver,  God, 
And  never  hiinl  of  Earth,  nor  Sin,  nor  Vice 

nor  any  crime, 
Shall  foul  God's  essence  with  their  grossness 

or  their  grime. 

Man  may  abuse  his  body  till  the  yawning  grave 
deceive  it;  the  Spirit,  swift,  to  Him  who 

gave, 
Returns  unsullied.      The  body,  from  which 

the  Soul  has  fled, 
Is,  remains  forever,  Senseless,  JSxtinct  and 

<Dead. 


"  WHE/i  all  mankind  shall  circumspectly  view 

Bodies  politic   and,    watchful,  thoughtfully 
pursue 

Their  histories   with   mind   deliberate   and 
honest  heart; 

Shall  fathom  quite  the  sophist's  keen  falla- 
cious art, 

'By  which  fair  words  ill  deeds  but  cover  and 
conceal; 

which  the   wih  few,  unchecked,  wreck 
public  weal, 

They   must  God's   Tower  and  Wisdom  then 
confess; 


[65] 


Musi  see  man 's  Treasure  and  his  real  Happiness 
Upon  this  earth,  was  not  the  divine,  or  perfect  plan 
Of  God's  design  when  He  Created  Mortal  Man. 


"WITHIN  the  bitter  cup  which  all  mankind  must  taste 

many  sorrows,  many  natural  evils  placed; 
dnd  every  jirl  by  human  knowledge  used, 
And  every  Method,  Motive,  Lav,  or  'Policy  abused 
To  cure  these  evils,  since  those  first  happy,  gladsome 

days, 
When  joyous  stars  together  sang  fond  Nature's  praitt, 


[67] 


Have   only   served  to   magnify,    lo   heighten   and  lo 

aggravate, 

Or  bring  new  mischiefs  into  man's  low  estate. 
How  long,  just  God,  before  dumb  man,  shall  own 
The  sway  of  nature?     Shall  let  her  voice  be  heard  and 

known; 

Shalt  heed  her  counsels  kind,  which  always  plainly  say 
li^hich  is  the  jusler,  milder  or  more  most  gracious  way? 
For  Mind,  Ambition,  eager  strive,  and  only  see 
The  triumphs  of  Iheir  skill  and  subtlety; 

never  stop  lo  count  their  senseless  store 
So  long  as  conquest,  pursuit  offers  more. 


MO  TLtiGl'E  has  to  God's  straying  people  rent 
that  they  name  their  social  government; 


[69] 


Wo  cause  of  dungeon*,  tortures,  racks  and  chains, 
Gibbets,  murders,  anguish,  groans  and  agonizing  pai'm 
Is  quite  so  apt  in  every  wile  and  guise  sophistic 
As  that  men  call  the  Church,  ecclesiastic. 


These  two,  as  all  men  s  woes  and  ins  male, 

For  reasons  known  as  the  "  Concerns  of  State," 

Hare  robbed  and  plundered  far  and  mar, 

Awed  by  their  craft-  and  sternly  ruled  by  Fear; 

Have  made  the  Truth  her  throne  forsake, 

'Dissimulation  '$  feigning  way  to  make, 

Until  to-day,  on  earth's  tear-catered  face, 

Liberty  and  )'irtue  have  no  'biding  place; 

For  instead  of  their  own  unpolluted  state, 

There's  some  dcfling,  ill  made  adulterate. 

And  ail  for  n-hal?    Because  man 's  made  of  belter  clay 


[71] 


\ 

i 


Than  beasts  and  plan  Is,  n  Inch  flourish  and  decay, 
?lnd  thus  man  proves  his  wisdom  and  his  worth 
"By  becoming  baser  Ihan  I  he  vilest  thing  on  earth. 


MOST  men  from 
the  teachings  of 
Wakea  turned 

\To  the  grimace  of 
some  stony  idol, 
and  spurned 


The  gods  of  their  fathers:  said,  "Men  could  not  wait 

for  ages  unborn 
For  the  good  which  the  gods  came  to  teach  men  should 

scorn; 

Man  wants  assurance  that  for  lives  broken  and  sore, 
He  shall  lire  again,  lore  again,  on  some  fairer  shore.  " 
Great  temples  Here  biiilded  to  gods  called  "Unknown;" 
Men  sacrificed  In  appease,  and  the  expiring  groan 
Of  the  victims  so  slain,  drowned  for  a  season  the  plaint 
Of  the  just:  and  the  poison,  the  tinge  and  the  taint 
Of  corruption  spread  over  the  earth  like  a  pall. 
Men  parcelled  the  globe;  slaves  came  at  their  call; 
Springs  in  Life's  desert,  the  waters  which  ran    • 
From  great  rivers,  were  owned  hy  the  fortunate  man 
Who  frsl  came  upon  them;  and  water  was  sold 
from  the  wells  of  the  gods,  to  enhance  the  gold 
Of  the  men  who  enclosed  them;  newcomers  found 
fflul  nakedness,  barrenness,  all  the  world  round; 
For  those  who  were  born  when  the  lands  were  divided, 
it  'ere  the  only  souls  who  had  life-holds  provided. 
.>//  last  men  gave  to  itlden  gods  no  thought  or  heed, 
:Bu!  foit»ne(/,  taught,  and  only  hrtcd  to  Greed; 


[73] 


Then  the  gods  departed  from  their  old-time  home 
tit  Maui,  throng  haul  the  starry  realms  to  roam, 
l/hlil  the  lime  when  man  vilh  all  his  lusts -shall 

disappear, 
find  cease  to  cumber  this  immortal,  deathless  sphere. 


[75] 


7/1Z7ZW  the  god  Wakea  saw  the  cheating  fruit*  of 

Change, 

Saw  men  through  Nature's  gardens  discontented  range, 
Seeking  blossoms  -which,  in  maddened  hade,  they  lay 
."hide,  soon  as,  glimmering  faint  and  far  away, 
Some  other  bloom  by  ignus  fatutis  light, 
beguiled  their  fancy  or  obscured  their  sight; 
find  how  Deceit,  Chicane  and  wanton  War 


Drew  Death  s  triumphal,  glutton  car, 
Which  robbed  men,  e'en  the  wisest  and  the  best, 
Of  happiness,  contentment,  peace  and  quiet  rest; 
How  Virtue,  Truth  and  Justice  could  not  e'en  enhance 
The  lotleried  whirligig  of  undulated  Chance, 
Whose  highest  ware  of  fortune  bore  in  very  scorn, 
The  mean,  ignoble,  and  the  base  and  lowly  born; 
His  soul  iras  moved  and  sadly  questioned  then 
God's  wisdom  which  creaUd  striving  men. 


then  Waha  sank,  and  there  came 
$  vision  of  the  Future:  and  he  saw  the  veiy  name 
Of  God  forgo} ten;  w//  the  teeming  world  to  Creed 
Abandoned,  and  Iht  mailing  millions  bleed 


Beneath  the  tyranny  which  brother  mortals  held 
In  shining  heaps;  while  unfed  misery  ever  swelled 
An  eating  sore,  a  cankered,  sullen  hurl; 
A  starving  beggar  'mid  the  golden  piles  of  magnetizing 

dirt; 

Then  he  saw  the  high,  the  Sovereign  God  of  all 
'lorn  down,  and,  in  the  dust  beneath  the  awful  fall, 
Men  fought  and  slew  with  frightful  hand  of  hale 


[79] 


TJNIVERSIT 


CHANGING  yet,  the  troubled  dream  became  confused; 
la  MS;  no  power  supreme:  Virtue  but  a  name  abused; 
Individuals  knew  no  pleasure  but  their  own; 
2?)'  anarchy  the  terror  brands  of  waste  were  thrown, 
Which  kindled  into  conflagration 's  common  flame 
dll  men's  possessions;  then  3)arfoie$s  o'er  the  vision 

came, 

From  which  the  cries  of  savage  conflict  grew 
dud  died  away;  and  then  the  dreaming  man-god  knew 
'Dial  man,  with  all  Ids  schemes  and  all  his  works,  was 

o  'er; 
That  gods  would  rehabilitate  the  world  once  more. 


[81] 


TEE  god  awoke,  and,  last  of  all  his  race  divine, 
^Departed  from  the  isfe  of  Mam,  but  he  left  a  sign 
Winch  man  nor  hoary  age  can  e  'er  defile; 
Summer  smiles  eternal  in  this  "Garden  Isle;" 
Here  man  may  live  uritrammehd,  love,  and  see 
finds,  blooms  and  fruitage  on  the  same  rose-apple  tree 
The  favor  of  the  gods  forever  rests  upon 
The  Isle  of  'MauiMropic  Palace  of  the  Sun.  • 


[83] 


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